Toyota Racing took its sixth overall victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, with the #7 TR010 Hybrid crew coming through a race shaped by safety cars and late-race tire strategy to defeat BMW and Cadillac at the Circuit de la Sarthe. Inter Europol Competition secured back-to-back LMP2 class wins, while TF Sport’s Corvette ended Porsche’s grip on LMGT3 honors.

Hypercar

Toyota Racing ended a four-year wait for Le Mans glory as the #7 TR010 Hybrid of Kamui Kobayashi, Mike Conway and Nyck de Vries came through a three-way Hypercar battle to take the chequered flag, 10.913 seconds ahead of the #20 BMW M Team WRT M Hybrid V8 of Robin Frijns, René Rast and Sheldon van der Linde. The sister #8 Toyota of Sébastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Ryo Hirakawa rounded out the podium in third, ahead of the #12 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA V-Series.R of Louis Delétraz, Will Stevens and Norman Nato in fourth. For the majority of the race it was the #12 Cadillac and #20 BMW that held the advantage, but a safety car with just under six hours to go — triggered by a heavy crash by Ayhancan Güven’s #91 Manthey Porsche — wiped out Frijns’ 30-second lead and reshuffled the order. A Full Course Yellow three hours from the end then put de Vries in the lead for Toyota, and Kobayashi, on clean tires for the final stint, held off Frijns’ closing charge with a comfortable enough margin in the end.

Frijns’ move around the outside of the Porsche Curves with 47 minutes to go to pass Buemi — who was running older rubber — secured second for BMW, its best Le Mans result since the marque’s only outright win in 1999. The victory was Toyota’s sixth overall and its first since 2022, with Kobayashi and Conway both second-time winners and de Vries taking his maiden triumph at the Circuit de la Sarthe. Ferrari’s hopes of a fourth consecutive overall win came to nothing, the #51 AF Corse 499P of Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado and Antonio Giovinazzi finishing fifth. The #35 Alpine A424 was sixth, the #83 AF Corse Ferrari seventh, and the #007 Aston Martin Thor Team Valkyrie eighth, while both Peugeot 9X8s finished outside the points in 11th and 12th. Genesis completed its debut Le Mans with the #19 GMR-001 in 13th, though the #17 sister car retired with suspension failure.

LMGT3

TF Sport’s #33 Corvette Z06 LMGT3.R of Ben Keating, Jonny Edgar and Nicky Catsburg took the class win after starting 17th on the grid, ending Porsche’s run of consecutive Le Mans LMGT3 victories. Keating — back in competition after missing the opening two WEC rounds with an elbow injury — completed his required Bronze hours in the first half of the race, allowing Edgar and Catsburg to push hard through the night and build a lead of around 90 seconds before the second safety car period erased the gap. Catsburg was able to re-establish an advantage in the closing stages, and despite Hawksworth closing to within 13 seconds after the final stops, the #33 held on to win, with the real margin over the #78 Akkodis ASP Team Lexus RC F of Tom van Rompuy, Hadrien David and Jack Hawksworth around 20 seconds. The #23 Heart of Racing Aston Martin Vantage GT3 of Jonny Adam, Eduardo Barrichello and Gray Newell took the final class podium place.

The WEC points-leading #92 Manthey Porsche 911 GT3 R of Richard Lietz, Yasser Shahin and Ryan Pera lost four laps early in the second hour repairing a broken tie rod, eventually finishing 15th in class. The #69 WRT BMW M4 GT3 Evo — winner of the season opener at Imola — retired with gearbox failure, while both Garage 59 McLaren 720S GT3 Evo entries survived to the finish but circulated well off the pace. The #32 WRT BMW of Dennis Leung, Sean Gelael and Augusto Farfus was classified seventh in class, one lap ahead of the #150 Richard Mille AF Corse Ferrari.

LMP2

Inter Europol Competition secured its third LMP2 victory in four Le Mans editions, and a second in succession, with the #43 Oreca 07-Gibson of Jakub Smiechowski, Tom Dillmann and Nick Yelloly crossing the line 28 seconds clear of the sister #343 car of Reshad de Gérus, Bijoy Garg and Nico Müller — classified a full lap behind on the official sheet. The race had looked set for a three-way battle after the #30 Duqueine Team Oreca — shared by Doriane Pin, Julien Andlauer and Richard Verschoor — led at the halfway mark and showed the pace and fuel economy to match both Inter Europol cars, only for Verschoor to suffer a sudden brake failure on the Mulsanne Straight shortly after taking over the car. The #29 Forestier Racing by Panis Oreca of Louis Rousset, Esteban Masson and Ollie Gray briefly re-entered the fight for the lead after the second safety car and Masson passed the #343 for second, but a fuel offset forced an additional stop and the crew had to settle for third, 13 seconds behind Müller’s car.

In LMP2 Pro/Am, the #4 CrowdStrike Racing by APR Oreca of George Kurtz, Alex Quinn and Laurin Heinrich was in command for the majority of the race, finishing seventh overall in class after the #99 AO by TF car lost time with an off at Indianapolis late in the race. The #183 AF Corse Oreca of François Perrodo, Matthieu Vaxivière and Ben Barnicoat recovered to second in class, with the #99 AO by TF of PJ Hyett, James Allen and Dane Cameron completing the Pro/Am podium. Seventeen of the 18 LMP2 starters were classified finishers.